Android Eclipse Plugin "reset adb" gives "Adb connection Error:EOF" error, not blocking, but what is it?

Question

I'm trying to work through their notepad tutorial and it describes how the Eclipse project should automagically build and re-generate the auto-generated code when a file is saved. That wasn't happening, and looking at their debugging, they suggest the "reset adb" link in the DDMS perspective in the Devices panel. When I try to do that, I get the following output which I assume is bad:

[2010-01-03 23:09:51 - DeviceMonitor]Adb connection Error:EOF
[2010-01-03 23:09:51 - DeviceMonitor]Connection attempts: 1

a quick Google didn't reveal anything particular useful. What are the next debugging steps and/or what might be the issue?

UPDATE: So this actually isn't a problem like I thought it was, but I'd still be curious what this message means if anyone knows.

Answer 1

DDMS uses a long-lived connection to the adb server running locally to get info about connected devices/emulators etc. The error message you posted generally just means that the connection to adb has been lost.

Because you ran the reset command, you essentially just killed and restarted an adb process, so Eclipse showed that harmless warning for a moment.

You can see this yourself by killing the adb process manually. Eclipse will show Connection attempts: n for about 10 attempts before giving up.